Technology is the easy part – it’s working with people that’s hard! Holding effective meetings, securing peoples’ time and attention, making decisions, and working on a team are all harder than they should be. Is it because everyone (else) just does things wrong? Or could it be that if we understood more about how the brain works and the different ways that people think, we could collaborate more effectively? That’s the focus of this session: improving communication and building more effective teams through better understanding of the human brain.

We will talk about the Whole Brain Model and learn more about the “toward” and “away” responses that guide nearly everything we do. In short, we will leverage neuroscience principles so we can work together more effectively.

This is a fun and eye-opening presentation that I've delivered to seriously technical audiences and to general business audiences. It resonates with everyone because we all have a brain but there's no owner's manual!

This session title grabs the attention of many people and is appropriate for many audiences. However, I have delivered essentially the same presentation with alternate titles depending on the organizers' preferences. Please let me know whether one of the alternatives below is more suitable for your group.

"If I only had a brain! Embracing neurodiversity to be a better leader, follower, and teammate"

"Four things you need to know about your brain to tell data stories more effectively" [same topic -- slightly different focus]